" The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (1979) by the Charlie Daniels Band was the first modern popular song to feature a battle between the devil and a musician.The Rolling Stones' " Sympathy for the Devil" (1968) features Mick Jagger speaking as the Devil.Jazz was often called the Devil's music by its critics in the 1920s."Archangel of Light" (another name for Lucifer) is a title song of the classical music band with the same name, by the composer Carlos David López Grether Other pieces that refer to the Devil are Franz Liszt's "Mephisto Walzer" and Joseph Hellmsberger II's "Teufelstanz", as well as Haydn's lost opera "Der krumme Teufel". The theme is taken up by Stravinsky in the "Devil's Dance" from The Soldier's Tale. Tartini's Devil's Trill sonata and Paganini's Devil's Laughter caprice are examples. Highly virtuosic violin music was sometimes associated with the Devil. During the 19th century, Gounod's Faust, in which the Devil goes by the name Mephistopheles, was a staple of opera houses around the world. Hildegard of Bingen's 11th-century Ordo Virtutum features him, as do several baroque oratorios by composers such as Carissimi and Alessandro Scarlatti. The Devil is featured as a character in many musical representations from the Middle Ages to modern times. A man dressed as the Devil at New York City's West Indian Day Parade.
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